Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Goodwyn Rhett, 77, Southern lawyer and financier, onetime President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (1916-18); of uremic poisoning; in Charleston...
...Announced that any law firm retaining former SEC employes for advice on matters with which they became familiar while at SEC might lose its right to practice before SEC. SEC thereupon sued to enjoin former SEC Lawyer William J. Mahaney from "continuing to disclose" confidential information to his present employer, Banker L. M. Giannini, who is fighting an SEC attempt to delist the stock of Transamerica Corp. from the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges...
...worth of the railroad's bonds with four banks as collateral for personal loans. Flushed, but holding his handsome head high, Mr. Bird heard the prosecutor accuse him of living beyond his means, speculating in the market, and having a "hunger" for directorships. Then Bird's lawyer, George H. Cohen, rose to tell the story behind the crime. His story...
Since then, said Lawyer Cohen, Viggo Bird has made $304,000, paid $190,000 of it to the unnamed lender. This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
Omaha. On the afternoon of August 13, 1859, a railroad lawyer stood on a bluff over the Missouri River and decided that lots in a little village on the other side were safe investments. The lawyer was Abraham Lincoln; the village, Omaha, Neb. Railroads and stockyards made it great; in 1887 real-estate transfers amounted to $31,000,000. It was also corrupt: by 1911 the income of 370 houses of prostitution amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon...